Metallic label.



F. EB'ERHART.

METALLIC LABEL.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-I4, 1912.

Patented J 11119 29, 1915.

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FELIX EBERHART, OF NJZHKLARK, JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T0 AMERICAN CAN COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

METALLIC LABEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1915.

Application filed August 14, 1912. Serial No. 714,946.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, FELIX EBERHART, a citizen of the United States, residing in Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Metallic Labels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in metallic labels suitable for application to filled cans, and more particularly to filled sardine cans having countersunk covers, and the invention consists in a countersunk sheet metal label extending from rim to rim of the countersunk can head and secured at said rim to the can by bending the material of the label, as will be more particularly set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the ordinary sardine can provided with the improved label. Fig. 2 is a section taken diagonally through Fig. 1 on the line 22 of said figure. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the label before the same is applied.

This invention presents a label which may be made separately from the can, may be printed or lithographed with whatever form of printed matter is desired, and may be ap plied to the can after the same has been filled and sealed. The advantages of this method of labeling sardine cans over the old and well known methods of lithographing the cover or body of the can itself or soldering a brass label upon the can body, consists in the fact that it enables the manufacturer of the cans to keep large quantities of cans in stock against sudden orders, since the labels for different users, not being upon the cans themselves, may be rapidly made up as required in each instance, or made up in advance and kept on hand by the particular user himself. The use of this added label also does away with danger of mutilation and scratching of the decorated surface and the soiling of the same with oil and dirt which may happen during the filling and processing of the can. A further advantage of this particular kind of label, as compared with the old form of label soldered upon the can, is that it may be applied to the filled can without the use of solder and secured by a simple tucking operation, bending the 1naterial of the label itself beneath the shoulder of the seam between the can head and can body; and when this label extends diagonally across the can, as it may, this tucking attachment of it to the can body operates to secure it against any sliding, as Well as vertical removal.

In the accompanying drawing, A represents an ordinary filled sardine can, of which B Is the cover and C the interfolded seam between the body and the cover. This cover, it will be noted, is countersunk, and the seam forms a shoulder D extending around the rim of the can.

E is the label made of a strip of sheet metal and countersunk to conform to the contour of the can cover, so that at each end of the label is a groove F, the outer wall G of which extends down far enough to be turned under the shoulder D. The grooves F, F, one at each end, of the label are made to fit over the rim of the can body and cover, as indicated at Fig. 1, and preferably are made to fit over the diagonally opposite corners of the can as shown in that figure. This preferred construction gives a curved form to the groove F, so that when the label is applied, and the depending flange G tucked under the shoulder D, as indicated in section at Fig. 2, the label is secured both against upward removal and turning or sliding, the latter movement being prevented by the form of the can body itself, as will be readily understood. The sardine can being four sided with rounded corners, causes the label when applied thus diagonally, to be locked firmly in place. In the manufacture of these labels, the blanks may be first cut out, the surface lithographed, and the ends stamped up in the form indicated in Fig. 3. In this condition they may be kept in stock until needed, and applied to the cans by any ordinary tucking machine.

I claim 1. A sheet metal label for cans consisting of an elongated sheet of metal having its body portion intermediate of the ends adapted to lie across the head of the closed can, and formed at each end to be bent around and locked with the upstanding and outstanding seam which unites the can head with the can body, such formation consisting of an upwardly bent portion adapted to lie against the inner side of said seam, an outwardly extending portion adapted to lie over the top of said seam and a downwardly extending portion or wall which is adapted to be bent under the bottorn of the outstand being formed and grooved to fit diagonally ing seam of the can. across the countersunk face of a four sided,

2. The sheet metal label for cans formed round cornered sardine can. With a countersunk face, grooved ends, and FELIX EBERHART. 5' an outer depending flange which may be Witnesses:

tucked under the shoulder of the seam be- W. D. FOSTER, tween the can body and can head, said label O. W. GRAHAM.

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